Reminders

This morning I was out with my family lined up on the side of Center Street in Spanish Fork for the Pioneer Day parade. I have my iPod in my ear listening to a sermon. The parade started with some Civil War memorial soldiers hauling a cannon down the road and pausing to fire the cannon and their muskets with a blast of black powder and a HUGE boom! Then the fire department started coming down the street with their sirens blaring. I reached over to turn up the volume when the preacher was talking about being thankful to God for the little things that we don't always think about. He was talking about flying through space on this huge rock at a high rate of speed without falling of, how many times our heart will beat today without our input, our respiration and all. The fire engine stopped about 25 feet past us and fired up the water cannon. They waved it about while all the kids when barreling into the street to get wet. And I saw a rainbow show up in the waterfall from the water cannon. It just reminded me of the covenant God established with Noah and his sons and the animals and....me. It was a good reminder this morning.